This book examines the long term impact of service reform in children s mental health, focusing on comprehensive state and local initiatives to improve care for children with serious behavioral health and their families to illustrate how programmatic and contextual forces influence policy and practice in this area, and inform readers about strategies employed by policy makers, administrators and advocates to develop and sustain effective systems of care. This book looks at Virginia s effort to reform care for at-risk youth, as well as the transformational initiatives of six states and several...

This book examines the long term impact of service reform in children s mental health, focusing on comprehensive state and local initiatives to improve care for children with serious behavioral health and their families to illustrate how programmatic and contextual forces influence policy and practice in this area, and inform readers about strategies employed by policy makers, administrators and advocates to develop and sustain effective systems of care. This book looks at Virginia s effort to reform care for at-risk youth, as well as the transformational initiatives of six states and several...